CIOPORA held its first electronic President and Board elections by unavowed ballot as a part of the virtual Annual General Meeting ( AGM ) 2020 on June 3 - 5 . The novel CIOPORA Board is comprise of ten mortal from spawn and licensing companies alive in a broad range of horticultural cultivar :
Andrea Mansuino , NIRP International S.A. ( Italy ) , participates in the Board automatically as the CIOPORA immediate Past - President ( 2011 – 2017 ) .
Steven Hutton has been return by the overwhelming bulk for the 2nd three - yr term as CIOPORA President . Since his election at the AGM 2017 in Toronto , the third - genesis nurseryman and the past President & CEO of the Conard - Pyle Company / Star Roses & Plants has been successfully ferment on elaborate CIOPORA ’s outreach , with a nidus on the US , and lay out breeders ’ interests worldwide . Thanking CIOPORA members for their trust , Steven tell : “ Being President of CIOPORA is a culmination of the work I have done most of my professional life , bringing new plants to the humans ’s garden and making certain they have robust Intellectual Property ( IP ) shelter . ”The first - time Board electees , Ingrid Slangen , Head of IP & Legal Affairs at Selecta one ( Germany ) , and Michael Carriere , Ph.D. , Assistant Director at UC Davis Innovation Access ( USA ) , make for years of experience in IP for industrial plant instauration to their new positions . Ingrid Slangen has been chairing the CIOPORA Crop Section Cut Flowers since 2012 and has recently feign the situation of the CIOPORA ’s representative at the EU / CPVO . Michael Carriere has been lay out UC Davis Innovation Access at CIOPORA since 2006 and brings the perspective of a world - leading public raising institution to the board . Along with inaugurating the new Board , CIOPORA says farewell to three outgoing Board members . After years of lend to CIOPORA ’s work , Rafi Karniel , Grapa Varieties Ltd. ( Israel ) , the CIOPORA past President Lars Henriksen , Floripartner A / S ( Denmark ) , and the CIOPORA immediate past Co - Vice President Per Klemm , Selecta one ( Germany ) , decided not to run for the reelection due to other professional commitments . CIOPORA thanks the outgoing Board members for years of divine service and chiliad of pro bono hours put towards the breeder community ’s goal .
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